About 2.500 Jews live in Mumbai and worship at the eight synagogues in the city. After having settled in the Konkan more than 2,000 years ago, the low-profile community came into the limelight again following the terrorist attack on 26/11 in which six Jews were held hostage and murdered at the Mumbai Chabad House Jewish Outreach Centre. India has always protected its Jews. As a consequence, Maharashtra has an outpost of considerable size in Israel, where the Bene Israel Jews from the Konkan coast who made Aliya (return), speak Marathi, eat as they do here, wear saris and generally behave as if they’ve taken a piece of the state with them.